Town By Town
- 艺人
- Yonder Mountain String Band
- 语种
- 英语
- 厂牌
- Frog Pad
- 发行时间
- 2008年02月14日
- 专辑类别
- 录音室专辑
专辑介绍
by William Ruhlmann
As its title implies, Town By Town, the Yonder Mountain String Band's second studio recording and third CD overall, is something of a concept album about life on the road, the reality for the quartet's members since the group's formation. Mandolin player Jeff Austin's &New Horizons& concerns the rescue of a family from a flood, and guitarist Adam Aijala's &A Father's Arms& is a war story with a Vietnam-era tone, but even these two songs are about family and dislocation, and the rest of the songs are dominated by references to travel, with the necessary impact on the singers' love lives, resulting either in breakups or pleas for fidelity, a major factor. But the lyrics of these original songs penned by the band members, sung in their uniformly reedy tenors, are less significant than the music underlying them, a familiar mixture of fast-picked guitar, mandolin, and banjo, with producer Tim O'Brien adding welcome fiddle and bouzouki lines here and there. In addition to three outright instrumentals (&Easy As Pie,& &Wildewood Drive,& and &Hog Potato&), &New Horizons& and &Peace of Mind& both contain extended instrumental sections that go beyond the term &breakdown& into the kind of loose improvisation typical of rock bands like the Grateful Dead, justifying the group's inclusion under the jam band umbrella. Nevertheless, there is plenty here to enthuse a traditional bluegrass fan. (After three minutes of silence at the end of &Peace of Mind& comes a six-plus-minute hidden track, probably titled &Dance, Boatman, Dance,& which is taken at a sprightly square dance tempo and features O'Brien's fiddle extensively.)
最新简评（共3条）
- @做梦的猫：欢快的班卓琴
- @°R、ay梵s(天天UP~~!~~)：一张被埋没的好砖
- @Music Embas：非常干脆 非常硬朗，非常干净而干脆的 纯声乐器音乐，证明了美国人对乡村田园生活的一种 对开心与快乐的向往。